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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Actor 3.0
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.033408.23603@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 15 Oct 90 03:34:08 GMT
References: <16477@rouge.usl.edu>
Organization: DKW Systems Corporation, Dallas, TX
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In article <16477@rouge.usl.edu> pcb@cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes:
>I don't think the name similarity is by accident.  

   You're probably right.  However, the part line at Whitewater is that "they
didn't have MIT in mind when they named it."

>Each application will produce and prog.exe and a prog.ima file.  Both
>must be present to run these standalone and they are about 250k
>I think.  This seems kind of clumsy.  I suspect one module is a 
>binary encoding of the program and the other is an interpreter that
>reads the binary encoding (ima) file and calls sdk type calls.

You're right.  That's exactly what it does.  As for clumsy, it's really
not any more clumsy than any of the other interactive development tools
for Windows.  Well, any of the ones that currently exist, that is.  @:)
-- 
"What's in a name?  That which we call a rose by any other name would smell
 as sweet."             William Shakespeare
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